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Welcome to "A MOOC-ed for creating MOOC-eds"!

It's great to have you all as participants and I really hope to be able to help you through your journey of designing the perfect MOOC-ed. Let me begin with a bit about my motivation for this project! I'm a graduate student at Central Michigan University and for my final seminar project I had to design an artifact. I love professional learning and see it that it represents the idea of the lifelong learner. I decided to create this MOOC-ed to assist teachers, students or anyone who was interested in teaching something online. I believe that everyone has something to teach so let the designing begin!

A bit about the structure:

As a teacher for the past 14 years I have seen firsthand how constructivist methods really cement knowledge and skills for the learner. I try to apply this to my own practice and have done many different face-to-face and online PD sessions, webinars, conferences, workshops and even MOOCs myself. I have found that the ones in which I’m asked to create a product have had the largest impact and been the most useful; this is why I’m taking this approach. Every week you will be constructing part of your MOOC-ed. I think it's vital to have participants working on their project from the very beginning and go through many iterations until they perfect it! This is a 4 week course and will consist of about 1 hour of coursework a week. When I say one hour I mean one hour! I realize people are busy and that have other responsibilities so I'm being realistic about the commitment.

The course will consist of some light reading, some advice, social media activities but mostly work on your project!

Glad to have you all here!

Jennifer